A court in Mexico has granted a request filed by El Chapo's lawyers to suspend the order of detention for purposes of extradition entered Wednesday. (Use google translate). The request for a writ of amparo against the detention order was…

The Clinton campaign writes letters: I feel obliged to put into context just how egregious an error this story was. The New York Times is arguably the most important news outlet in the world and it rushed to put an erroneous story on the…

Mortgage Fraud Blog.
The trial of a Phoenix man accused of setting up a real estate Ponzi scheme during the Great Recession continued in Santa Ana on Tuesday. According to federal prosecutors who spoke with jurors at court, Michael J.…

Actor who accused Conservative MP Ken Clarke of sexually assaulting him cleared of perverting the course of justice – The Independent

‘An actor who accused former chancellor Ken Clarke of sexually assaulting him has been cleared of perverting the course of justice.’ Full story The Independent, 30th July 2015 Source: www.independent.co.uk

Sex Offender Issues

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By Jeffrey:
So it's the 4th of July once again. How do you feel about it? I'm sitting at home alone and feeling like an outsider. I don't…

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Megan's law is a sickening display of American law. After finding myself "tricked" by the state of Florida into becoming a…

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I'm Charles Farabee, and I'm a sex offender in South Carolina. I moved to Clinton South Carolina in 1996 from…

* TSA officials in Houston are checking hundreds of sorority girl bags because the convention book -- that all of them have -- keeps raising red flags. Now, Underhill thinks TSA should have figured this out and stopped checking. But…

Not quite, but e^(9+10)πi = e^21πi So there. (If your household isn’t as steeped in the 9+10=21 meme as is mine, coming from my 10- and 11-year-olds and their school chums, see here. And, yes, there are other “proofs”…

The National Abortion Federation has sued the Center for Medical Progress in federal court and seeks a pretrial injunction ordering the center not to publish certain videos that the center recorded. The federation claims that center…

The Associated Press reports: A temporary restraining order has been issued preventing an anti-abortion group from releasing any video of leaders of a California company that provides fetal tissue to researchers. The group is the same one…

SCOTUSblog

Symposium: Ideology, partisanship, and the new “one person, one vote” case

Richard L. Hasen is a Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. He blogs at Election Law Blog. It is tempting to think of the plaintiffs in Evenwel v. Abbott as conservatives. After all, the…

Seeking to overturn a major setback in its power to punish trading of stocks based on insider tips, the Obama administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to revive one of the highest profile prosecutions in years on Wall Street.…

Richard H. Pildes is the Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU. As soon as the Court decided to hear Evenwel, a barely suppressed anger emerged in many quarters, on grounds of both process and substance. On process: how dare…

[JURIST] A Mexican judge temporarily suspended a US extradition order on Friday for drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman [US State Department backgrounder], even though the federal attorney general’s office had approved the…

[JURIST] Egypt and Saudi Arabia signed an agreement on Thursday that will improve stability and safety in the region. The agreement [Al Arabiya report], entitled the “Cairo Declaration” and signed in Cairo by President…

GM admits its fix for a wireless OnStar hack was incomplete and is urging iOS users to update their RemoteLink app. The post Patch Your OnStar iOS App to Avoid Getting Your Car Hacked appeared first on WIRED.

Remember the opening scene of the first Fast and Furious film? Heists like these could become easier to pull off. The post Hackers Could Heist Semis by Exploiting This Satellite Flaw appeared first on WIRED.

By nearly any measure, sunny South Florida is tops in fraud (AP): Since the first settlers hacked their way into the mangrove tangles and drained much of the swampland, sunny South Florida has been virtually synonymous with shady deals and…

Real Lawyers Have Blogs

My friend and leading web designer, Greg Storey (@brilliantcrank), forwarded a piece from designer Travis Gertz (@travisgertz) on the decline of web design — especially as it relates to designing environments for publishing. Gertz…

Top 10 in Law Blogs: Deflategate, Trump and Bitcoin, Future of Class Action

The big sports news lately is the NFL as teams head back to training camp—but of course, there’s that big story off the field, in Deflategate. We have multiple legal takes on that today. Also, over on LXBN, Zosha writes on…

Online dating and matchmaking sites have been the rage for a decade or more. Being married for 35 years I can’t say I have had the opportunity to use one – though I understand married folks now use Ashley Madison, the…

The Montana Supreme Court has issued an Opinion in the following matter: CIVIL – WATER RIGHTS ADJUDICATION DA 14-0567 2015 MT 217, IN RE THE CROW WATER COMPACT, IN THE MATTER OF THE ADJUDICATION OF EXISTING AND RESERVED RIGHTS TO THE…

Selected reports and information issued by New York State's Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli issued during the week ending August 1, 2015

Selected reports and information issued by New York State's Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli issued during the week ending August 1, 2015[Click on text highlighted in colorto access the full report]Next in line for Michel-Lama Apartments…

Summaries of recent decisions posted on the Internet by the New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings [OATH]

Summaries of recent decisions posted on the Internet by the New York CityOffice of Administrative Trials and Hearings [OATH]Source: NYC Office of Administrative Trials and HearingsClick on text highlighted in color to access the text of…

beSpacific

“What is this database and why does it matter? The EU lends its flag to a large fleet of vessels that operate in distant waters, meeting our ever-growing demand for seafood by netting catch as far afield as Greenland the distant Pacific…

Via Google+ “Do you ever find yourself trying to avoid long lines or wondering when is the best time to go grocery shopping, pick up coffee or hit the gym (hint: avoid Monday after work)? You’re in luck! Now, you can avoid the…

The Am Law Daily

If you're looking for news about the business of law as practiced by the biggest, wealthiest law firms in the United States and the rest of the world, and stories about the lawyers who work at those firms, please visit the newly redesigned Am…

Nestle will acquire pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's infant nutrition business to expand its own global presence in the formula market. Mayer Brown, Skadden, Clifford Chance, and DLA Piper all have roles on the transaction.

Legal Scholarship Blog

Features law-related calls for papers, conferences and workshops. From the Ohio State Moritz College of Law, University of Georgia School of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law and University of Washington School of Law.

The Utrecht Journal of International and European Law invites submissions for its upcoming Special Issue (82nd edition) on ‘Intellectual Property in International and European Law’. With technological advancement…

The European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law (EPPPL) Review invites contributions to upcoming issues. Facing severe budgetary restraints, the modern State has to balance rising demands for transparency and...

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held, in Riley v. California, that law enforcement officers must get a warrant before searching cellular or wireless telephones seized from persons under arrest. Riley actually involved two cases.…

Per SF Gate, Loretta Smith of Glenwood, Georgia, pled guilty last Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia to taking more than $460,000 in Department of Veterans Affairs benefits. Smith was alleged to have made…

Sex Offender Research by A Voice of Reason

Slate Article: The Ridiculous Laws That Put People on the Sex Offender List

Slate published a similar series worth reading, see "Listed for Life" which has links to all of the articles.8-12-2014 National:
Three maps show states that register people as sex offenders for consensual teenage sex, peeing in…

7-30-15 Pennsylvania:
By the time Akbar A. Rivera was 17, he'd sexually assaulted two children.
Rivera's most recent victim was a 12-year-old girl whom he forced himself upon repeatedly in 2007 while living in south Bethlehem. Because he…

Over his property? Humm, were they casing the place? Were they looking for pics to blackmail him? The point is, over his property -what are his rights-, and it will be interesting to see how the court rules.. 7-30-15 Kentucky:
The way…

Written by Tracy L. Coenen, CPA, CFF Wisconsin Law Journal How would you know if your company was being looted by a dishonest employee? Most companies miss all of the warning signs that could help stop a fraud early. The Association of…

Written by Tracy L. Coenen, CPA, CFF Wisconsin Law Journal When you think of information in an internal fraud investigation, you most likely think of things like a company’s internal records. These include accounting documents,…

The Central District Health Department (CDHD) investigated a Salmonella outbreak associated with the Boise Co-op deli – specifically food purchased from the deli after June 1, 2015. As of the... Continue Reading

Overlawyered

You can listen via guest host Rick Sincere’s column at the Virginia political blog Bearing Drift. Tags: on TV and radio, Virginia
My radio appearance in Charlottesville is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our…

Not the first time a Hollywood figure has lent his name to attorney promotion, but with a better-than-average disclaimer: “Danny Trejo is not an attorney or a client. He’s a paid badass.” [Lowering the Bar] Tags: chasing…

The insanity — and the 10 to 20 year waits — of housing regulation in the Swedish capital [Alex Tabarrok] Tags: landlord tenant law, Sweden
Rent control in Stockholm is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our…

By Nate Smith Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari visited Washington, DC recently, soliciting U.S. support for his country’s struggle against the armed group known as Boko Haram. The struggle is a mighty one. As Amnesty…

By Leah Schmidt, Identity and Discrimination Unit, Amnesty International USA In July 2013, an 11-year-old girl became pregnant after having been raped repeatedly for two years by her stepfather. However, ending the pregnancy was not an option…

The U.S. Has 1 Day Left to Answer for This Man’s American Torture Story — in the Inter-American Commission on Human Right

By Kimie Matsuo Time is running out on another opportunity for the United States to do the right thing by Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi, who is allegedly languishing in solitary confinement at Guantánamo after suffering torture and…

The Standard Register Company Bankruptcy New Filing Alert: Objection To The Motion For Authority To Sell Assets Of The Estates Pursuant To Section 363 Of The Bankruptcy Code

On June 10, 2015, an objection to the motion for authority to sell assets of the estates pursuant to section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code was filed in the bankruptcy case of The Standard Register Company and its affiliates. The filing was…

The Standard Register Company Bankruptcy New Filing Alert: Objection To The Motion For Authority To Enter Into A Transaction Which Is Outside The Ordinary Course Of Busine

On June 10, 2015, an objection to the motion for authority to enter into a transaction which is outside the ordinary course of business was filed in the bankruptcy case of The Standard Register Company and its affiliates. The filing was…

The Standard Register Company Bankruptcy New Filing Alert: Objection To The Motion For Authority To Enter Into A Transaction Which Is Outside The Ordinary Course Of Busine

On June 10, 2015, an objection to the motion for authority to enter into a transaction which is outside the ordinary course of business was filed in the bankruptcy case of The Standard Register Company and its affiliates. The filing was…

The Word On Employment Law

Recent trends reveal that employment retaliation claims are on the rise. Further, courts are taking a hard line on offending employers accused of retaliation in employment. A review of United States Supreme Court decisions in retaliation…

But not in Japan. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dominique Strauss-Kahn are making headlines they probably wish they had never made. While I’m not a man and can, therefore, only surmise that the root of the problem somehow goes back to The…

And it’s exhibit one to the wage and hour lawsuit that has just been filed against your company. The Department of Labor (DOL) has announced the release of its first smartphone app – a timesheet that allows employees to keep track of…

Jailhouselawyer's Blog

Thursday, July 1, 2010Call For SupportThe Association of Prisoners is this generation’s attempt to give prisoners the voice we have long attempted to have heard.Many other groups and organisations exist which play a role in attempting to…

Association of Prisoners - National Campaign LaunchBy Ben GunnWednesday, June 30, 2010We all know that dealing with PSHQ is task for the unwitting and dim-witted. They are a slippery bunch at the best of times. But PSHQ has been causing the…

Conflict of Laws .net

Covers news and discussion on the conflict of laws in private international law cases. Editor is Martin George of the University of Birmingham. Published in association with the Journal of Private International Law.

The publishing house C.H. Beck has recently released the “Gedächtnisschrift für Hannes Unberath”. Edited by Stefan Arnold and Stephan Lorenz the volume contains, among others, four German language contributions…

…For the Spanish lawmaker to fulfill the promise, made in 2000, of a Ley de cooperación juridical internacional en material civil. The new Act can be downloaded here. It will come into force in twenty days.…

Out now: The Counterclaim in the Civil Procedural Law of the European Union and its Member State

Dr. Agnieszka Okonska, LL.M. (Leipzig), has just published a monumental comparative study on “The Counterclaim in the Civil Procedural Law of the European Union and its Member States” (Die Widerklage im Zivilprozessrecht der…

How to Discharge Your Student Loans In Bankruptcy! Yes, It Can Be Done!

Most people, both lawyers and non-lawyers, believe that filing bankruptcy does not result in a discharge of a student loan. That, for the most part, is true under the 2005 Bankruptcy Act amendments. The code, as amended, does not…

Harvey Miller may be the best bankruptcy practitioner of the last 50 years. He died this week and the world is a lesser place without him. Miller was the all-star bankruptcy attorney in many of the most important bankruptcies and…

What happens when you surrender a home in bankruptcy? Must you move the second a bankruptcy is filed? Do they give you time to move or will your possessions be thrown out on the front lawn for the neighbors to view? When you…

Consolidation of Blogs: New Location of Content on ComplexDiscovery.com

Effective April 1, 2015, the Information Governance Engagement Area blog will no longer be updated on a regular basis. New content ranging from news and events to opinions and assertions will now be available exclusively on the…

How to Detect, Define, &amp; Use an Enterprise Document Attribute Matrix

By John MartinDocuments in file shares, content management systems, and scanned archives are often described as “unstructured.” However, there is typically a high level of structure in and interconnectedness among those documents.…

Using Continuous Active Learning to Solve the ‘Transparency’ Issue in TAR

By John TredennickTechnology assisted review has a transparency problem. Notwithstanding TAR’s proven savings in both time and review costs, many attorneys hesitate to use it because courts require “transparency” in the TAR…

Monica Castorena, 29, was killed in a Mission Viejo motorcycle accident early morning on July 25, 2015. According to a news report in The Orange County Register, the fatal crash between a Toyota Prius and a Kawasaki motorcycle occurred at the…

Stephanie Martinez, 3, of Las Vegas, fell five stories to her death at an Anaheim hotel while on a Disneyland vacation with her family. The incident occurred the evening of July 20, 2015 at the Embassy Suites in the 3100 block of East…

A California state lawmaker has proposed sweeping bus safety reforms recommended by federal officials who investigated a fiery bus crash in Northern California that killed eight people including five Los Angeles area high school students who…

"Caitlyn has every right to be just as conservative as she chooses. But many transgender men and women need social programs to survive..."

"... and that's nothing to be ashamed of. If Cait's going to be a spokesperson for the community. This is something she's going to have to understand."Pushback... as Caitlyn Jenner shows her political conservatism. Eh. Or something like that.…

Asks Mac McConnell in the comments to this morning's men-in-shorts post.My answer: "They should not be so long that I can stand on them."If you're thinking of wearing a kilt that has a train...... guys, don't.

Simple Justice

At Vox, Max Fisher did a number on the mob. No, not the mob that most people hate, but the other mob, the one born of righteous anger, and the occasional fun of destroying someone, on the internet. It was putatively about the mob that went…

The street name, Whispering Woods Lane, sounds quiet, calm and bucolic, though it’s a housing development in Sparta, New Jersey. Even so, knocking at the front door at 2 in the morning is jarring. That the three boys…

For reasons that oftentimes eludes me, I get pitched by new legal tech start-ups, seeking to gain my approval of their business and, gasp, write something nice about them. Enthusiastic young people, sometimes lawyers, explain to me in…

We are discussing some of the issues raised by Peter Henning in his DealBook column, The S.E.C.’s Use of the ‘Rocket Docket’ Is Challenged.
In any event, the limits on discovery, the fact that ALJ decisions are…

Peter Henning wrote an interesting piece over at DealBook on the SEC's use of administrative proceedings in place of actions in federal district court. See The S.E.C.’s Use of the ‘Rocket Docket’ Is Challenged.…

We are discussing the Second Circuit's decision in ParkCentral Global Hub Limited v. Porsche Automobile Holdings, a case that effectively created a "reverse effects test" that was contrary to the Supreme Court's analysis…

In the News

Elisabeth Semel quoted in The Press Enterprise, June 29, 2015 “It is premature to speculate about how this is going to play out,” said Elisabeth Semel. “The future of the death penalty in California is very much up in…

Melissa Murray interviewed by NPR, June 29, 2015 “The United States Supreme Court may not have the power of the purse and the sword like Congress or the executive—Alexander Hamilton famously called the Court the least…

StandDown Texas Project

"Efforts to Repeal Death Penalty Begin Again With New Delaware Legislature," is by Shana O'Malley of WHYY-FM NewsWorks, via NBC Philadelphia. Supporters of ending capital punishment in Delaware are gearing up for another attempt to have a…

Slate posts, "Why Is Justin Wolfe Still in Prison?" It's by Dahlia Lithwick. A few years back, I wrote about prosecutorial misconduct in the Northern Virginia capital murder trial of Justin Wolfe. The case was one of several in the...

This infographic touches on several issues in Scott Panetti's case in a visual fashion: Earlier coverage of Scott Panetti's case begins at the link. All prior coverage is in the Scott Panetti category index. The Supreme Court established…

Ninth Circuit affirms dismissal of privacy-related class action against Netflix: You can access today's ruling of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

Close the Gap App™ (sponsored by GoDaddy) is a powerful online tool that takes you on a guided deep dive into your career path. It's like having your very own career or business coach on your desktop or mobile…

I launched the Negotiation Law Blog on October 3, 2006, shortly after I'd earned my LL.M in Conflict Resolution from the Straus Institute at Pepperdine University School of Law. I'm uncertain just how many months earlier I'd begun blogging on…

This just in from Harvard's Program on Negotiation:
In a new study, Nour Kteily of Northwestern University and his colleagues found that low-power groups can influence powerful parties to engage with them through their framing of the…

Law Blog

Law school graduate employment rates are about to look a little worse at some schools in the wake of a new proposal adopted Friday by accreditors. During a meeting in Chicago, the American Bar Association’s accrediting arm voted to…

Adi Ayal, Bar Ilan University and Yaad Rotem, College of Law and Business, Ramat-Gan, Israel offer Anticompetitive Patents: An Incorporation Solution. ABSTRACT: Patent protection is both a blessing and a curse. Allowing for investment and…

Donald I. Baker, Baker & Miller, PLLC has posted his prepared remarks from the AAI American Antitrust Institute Annual Conference, which honored him for his lifetime achievements in the field - ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT: FROM SUNLIGHT TO…

The Legal Theory Bookworm recommends Law, Liberty and State: Oakeshott, Hayek and Schmitt on the Rule of Law by David Dyzenhaus & Thomas Poole. Here is a description: Oakeshott, Hayek and Schmitt are associated with a conservative…

Download of the Week: &quot; ‘Abstract Endangerment,’ Two Harm Principles, and Two Routes to Criminalization&quot; by Duff &amp; Marshall

The Download of the Week is ‘Abstract Endangerment,’ Two Harm Principles, and Two Routes to Criminalization by R. A. Duff & S. E. Marshall . Here is the abstract: We need to distinguish, as theorists too often fail to distinguish,...

Tom W. Bell (Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law) has posted Outgrowing Copyright: The Effect of Market Size on Copyright Policy on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Does copyright protection offer the best means of stimulating…

IntLawGrrls

Judge’s Order in Flores Should Signal the End of Family Detention in the United State

A federal judge issued an order in the Flores case that should go a long way to ending the government’s practice of detaining children and their mothers in unlicensed, secure facilities in Dilley and Karnes, Texas. Since the summer of…

Shocked and saddened to read that U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander William Kuebler died from cancer on July 17, at age 44. (photo credit) Bill’s representation of Omar Khadr, born in Canada and seized by U.S. forces in an Afghanistan…

President Obama’s current trip to East Africa (Kenya and Ethiopia) and the recent extension of the African Growth & Opportunities Act (AGOA) are an opportunity to ponder the tenuous link that, without sound domestic policies, exists…

A New York state trial court judge yesterday in a 33-page opinion sympathetic to plaintiffs' claims nevertheless rejected attempts by animal rights activists to obtain a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of two chimpanzees used in scientific…

In Rockland County, New York yesterday, a state trial court judge, after a bench trial, found Hasidic Rabbi Moshe Taubenfeld not guilty on charges of sexually abusing a minor from 2001 to 2006. The Lower Hudson Journal News reports…

Inspector General Issues Report On Protection of Conscience Rights In the Military

Last week (July 22), the U.S. Department of Defense Inspector General issued a report on Rights of Conscience Protections for Armed Forces Service Members and Their Chaplains. The 2014 Defense Authorization Act called for the…